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Diario Co Latino, El Salvador

Europe and U.S. Equally Cruel to Migrant Workers

"Many believed that today's Europe, because its past was so appallingly bloody, was more democratic and humane than the U.S.  But with this newly-adopted law, it has demonstrated that it's the equal of the United States."

EDITORIAL

June 27, 2008

Diario Co Latino - El Salvador -Original Article (Spanish)

When the United States decided to erect a double wall along its common border with Mexico - and some states promoted laws to prosecute migrants, many deplored and condemned the action because such methods violate the human rights of immigrants.

Of course, this anti-immigrant policy isn't unique to the United States, which has had to withstand that nearly 500,000 Central and South Americans that flee their countries every day.

Recently, the European Parliament approved a shameful law against migrants, which should be condemned not only by citizens of the world but also by governments.

According to news coming from the Old Continent, the law passed by the Euro-Parliament on the 18th of this month not only permits the expulsion of undocumented immigrants, but also provides for prison terms of up to 18 months and five-year prohibition on returning to Europe.

In other words, the United States, the European Parliament sees the immigrant as a criminal, rather than as a human being seeking to survive in a distant land.

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Many believed that today's Europe, because its past was so appallingly bloody, was more democratic and humane than the U.S.  But with this newly-adopted law, it has demonstrated that it's the equal of the United States.

Therefore it is clear that anti-immigration on the part of the ruling classes has in fact become globalized, which will necessarily result in the globalization of citizens in favor of emigration.

That is to say, to the extent that there are repressive mechanisms against migration, immigrants must innovate and develop a variety of ways to agitate in favor of immigration.

The governing classes of the nations of the First World, with their repressive laws, pretend to ignore their historic responsibility in provoking the exodus of thousands of men and women from Africa and Latin America, mostly on the basis of purely economic reasons.

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